Tweet Everyone is saying that Labour now urgently needs two or three key themes which will resonate with the electorate and will be recognised by everyone as the party’s distinctive goals. I believe those three key themes should be (i) reversing austerity by kickstarting the economy and putting a million or more unemployed back to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NHS’
Economic expansion & jobs, NHS, housing must be Labour’s key themes
May 22nd, 2013 by Michael Meacher.
NHS Commissioning: Why You Should Care
May 1st, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Tweet One of the reasons the government have had an easy ride over its plans for the systematic looting of the NHS by Tory-friendly private health companies is the sheer complexity of their restructuring. Unlike, say, the Department for Work and Pensions, where there is a single bureaucracy responsible for administering a particular public service [...]
Why we’re marching to save our hospital today
Mar 16th, 2013 by Newsdesk.Tweet From 11.30am today, demonstrators will assemble at Highbury Corner in north London, to march to save the Whittington Hospital. Here, the Defend Whittington Hospital Coalition explain why: In 2010, our massive campaign overturned the government’s proposals to get rid of our Accident and Emergency, Paediatrics, Maternity and Intensive Care services at the Whittington Hospital. [...]
Only little people pay the penalty
Mar 3rd, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Tweet Recent decisions on the banks, police and health service cast a rancid light over the current nature of the British State. RBS was shamed by an enormous £390m fine for ‘widespread misconduct’ in rigging the Libor rate at least till November 2010, 2 years after it was bailed out by taxpayers. Regulators found that [...]
The Spirit of ’45
Feb 24th, 2013 by Newsdesk.Tweet Ken Loach’s latest film, The Sprit of ’45, is in cinemas from 15 March. A retrospective but with a clear contemporary purpose. Looking back through the enthusiasm and commitment of his interviewees at archive footage about reconstruction and the creation of the welfare state, it nevertheless focusses on the current dismantlement of the NHS [...]
On this day: Labour’s great rebellion against Churchill and its own leaders
Feb 18th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Seventy years ago today, Labour MPs mounted the biggest rebellion of the second world war against the wartime coalition government’s reluctance to implement the Beveridge report. The overwhelming majority of the parliamentary Labour Party voted against its own leadership – coalition cabinet members Clement Attlee, Herbert Morrison and Ernie Bevin who had pleaded with [...]
First anniversary of GMB strike action against Carillion
Feb 14th, 2013 by Andy Newman.Tweet Today is the anniversary of the first of 22 days of strike action by GMB members at the Great Western Hospital (GWH) in Swindon, one of the earliest Private Finance Initiative (PFI) build and operate hospitals, and only the second opened by Carillion. This long running industrial dispute between the union and Carillion, over [...]
Call for “direct action” to save Whittington Hospital, after huge public meeting
Feb 13th, 2013 by John Millington.Tweet Islington local residents have been urged to launch a campaign of direct action including occupations to save Whittington hospital. Unite South Eastern Regional secretary, Peter Kavanagh, made the call following a packed Save Whittington Hospital public meeting in Islington last night. The Board of the Whittington NHS Trust took the decision to sell off £17 million [...]
Keogh & Lewisham point up ugly face of NHS marketisation
Jan 29th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Tweet By coincidence two quite different processes are dramatising simultaneously the market shocks now being applied relentlessly to the NHS. Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS clinical director, is demanding that hospital closures must be accepted in order to concentrate scarce specialist skills ‘for the good of the patient’. The buzzword for this latest upheaval is [...]
Tax avoiders must be prohibited from the NHS
Jan 19th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Tweet Only the Tories would be brazen enough to use the NHS as another source of tax avoidance. But that’s exactly what they are doing, with a report going to Hunt later this month recommending that private companies which have always paid corporation tax and VAT on supplies to the NHS should now be exempted [...]
